Isn’t the Light OK?

Glen Phillips, one of my favorite song­writ­ers, is spon­sor­ing a con­test to pro­mote his new EP, Secrets of the New Explor­ers. Much like Nine Inch Nails, the Beastie Boys and Jim’s Big Ego before him, he’s pro­vided the multi-track .wav files to his song “The Spirit of Shack­le­ton” for bud­ding remixers/arrangers/karaoke vocal­ists to do with what they please.

Hav­ing done this kind of thing before back in the old MP3.com days (check the remixes here), I was curi­ous to see what I could come up with, and threw this together with a down­load of a loop-based music pro­gram, Glen’s tracks, and some stock loops. The original’s a lit­tle slower, but I was going for a more para­noid techno feel, in keep­ing with the lyrics of the song.

Check out some of the oth­ers at Kompoz.com, and if you like it, please leave a com­ment or some­thing. I don’t know if pub­lic opin­ion will sway the judges, but the win­ner gets a gui­tar auto­graphed by the man him­self, and I could use all the val­i­da­tion from my heroes that I can get.

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